Franz Weiskopf was the son a german jewish bank assistant and
a czech mother. He bisited German schools in Prague and studied
German Studies and History in that city. In 1923 he was promoted.
He had joined the communist party in Czechoslovakia in 1921
and in 1926 he visited the Soviet Union.

In 1928 he
moved to Berlin, where he married Grete Bernheim, better known
as the author Alex Wedding. He worked for the Berlin am Morgen
newspaper and in 1930 he attended a conference of revolutionary
authors in Charkow together with Anna Seghers.

After
the nazis came to power in 1933 he returned to Prague and in
1939 he moved to the USA. After the war he returned from New
York to Germany and he worked as a diplomat for Czechoslovakia
in Stockhol and China. In 1952 he returned to Prague and in
1953 he and Grete settled in East Berlin. There he published
a magazine together with Willy Bredel. He died in 1955.